Australian BOM Rain Radar Card

No this is not possible as it is using a library that dynamically generates the frames for display. I don’t understand what you mean by available via the API.

It might not be long before we get more radars for inland NSW :slight_smile:

Just need the BoM to test and integrate it into their data.

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V1.2.13 has been released.
The Brewarrina radar is now online and the card has been updated to include it in the locations.

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are you getting console messages for this release?

Yes. They were in the last few releases by looks of things. The only change today was to add an extra set of coordinates and bump the version. Anyway 1.2.14 removes the messages.

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I believe Parkes will be the next one added sometime in early part of next year. Also now that Brewarrina is live I the BOM are planning to move the Moree radar about 100km’s north somewhere close to the qld border.

So there’s no way to get a location list from the API and you have to update the locations available manually each time?

Unfortunately it is a manual thing. The actually radar info happens without update, but to get the little icon and the range ring it needs an update.

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v1.2.16 has been released. Nothing major, just updated the location of the new Brewarrina radar and increased the radar coverage shading from a radius of 200km to 250km to better match the tiles provided by the BoM.

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Also another new radar for NSW around April next year.
https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/about-us/media-centre/releases/2020/ministerial/new-hillston-ivanhoe-doppler-radar-construction-fast-tracked

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So just following up on this it only occurs in mobile safari. It does not occur in the IOS app or Safari on a Mac.

I have mine in vertical stacks and it goes outside the stack pushing everything over. Is there a way to manually limit the map width?

Are you using panel: true?
I don’t see this on my iPad or iPhone. The app actually uses safari as well. What else is in your lovelace?
No way I know of to manually limit the width

Nope I am not. But it doesn’t make a difference if I do.

I finally had some time to play around with it and I created an entirely different Lovelace dashboard with essentially nothing in it. Still occurred.

But then I tested it on my other iPad which is running IOS 14.1 no issues. My wall tablet runs IOS 12. So obviously some change in safari that it doesn’t like. I have no issues with any other Lovelace cards on IOS 12 though. Weird.

This may be a problem with leaftletjs on ios12. I have seen mention of issues with this combination. Unfortunately I have no to look into this issue as I have zero ios devices available to me.

It displays correctly on iOS 14.

This is so good thanks for developing this.

Thanks for the kind words.

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Just noticed that the BoM appear to be having some issues with getting all the tiles published again. Too much info to deal with?
If you see missing tiles in the plugin please check if it is the same on the BoM version (https://weather.bom.gov.au/) before asking for assistance.

Hey Simon… Any chance I could use a device_tracker latitude and longitude attributes as the center of the map for this? Basically a template for the centre latitude and longitude
Only asking because we are travelling over the weekend and would be nice if the card tracked us and sowed where we are on the map and the rain around us etc?

In theory I think the answer is yes, but I am not sure how to subscribe to location updates. It would also need more options to enable it (ie. something like track_location: true; track_entity: davids_phone and track_icon: mdi_something). Probably all doable, but not in the timeframe you desire.

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